Waldrip, Stuart

Waldrip report cost $30,000, finds trustee and Fleming actions "imprudent" and "ill-advised"

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Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano Dispatch "Trustees received retired Judge Stuart Waldrip’s report in January but have not commented on it. They paid Waldrip $400 an hour to compile the report, for a total of about $30,000. The report called several acts by trustees or Fleming “imprudent” or “ill-advised” but decided no laws were broken."

Volzke is the publisher of the Capistrano Dispatch.

Waldrip conspicuously overlooks evidence of Fleming trustees' knowledge of, or involvement in wrongdoings

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Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano Dispatch "The report’s also silent about what the Trustees knew about these lists, and when. Waldrip notes Fleming sent a report on recall proponents’ efforts to trustees early in the campaign, an April 2005 memo stamped “CONFIDENTIAL.” In Fleming’s words, a “mole” had approached the district’s security officer. The memo outlines key players in the recall effort, including four San Juan residents, referring to them as NIMBYs ... That was about the same time the first list was generated, and should have been enough warning for Trustees to tell their superintendent to focus on running the school district and let them worry about the politics. Waldrip didn’t ask Trustees whether they thought the memo was appropriate – the only trustee he even interviewed was Draper, about her daughter’s work with Culbertson Adams."

Volzke is the publisher of the Capistrano Dispatch.

Waldrip finds second enemies list more troubling than first

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Stuart Waldrip, The Capistrano Dispatch “I find the ‘second list’ to be more troubling than the first ... One must ask why, if the mission was to learn how the process works in the Registrar’s office, the District came back with detailed information on the petition-gatherers and then converted that information to spread sheets organized by the degree of activity in gathering signatures with detailed information about not only the parents but also the students, their grade level, school and home address and phone information – or for that matter, any of the information from the petitions at all.”

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Stuart Waldrip made these findings about the infamous CUSD “enemies” lists in his 13-page investigation report to the CUSD Board of Education.

Fleming's explanation for first list implausible; Waldrip finds information too extensive

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Stuart Waldrip, The Capistrano Dispatch “... the spreadsheets contain much more information regarding the addresses than would be necessary to investigate the source of the address data.”

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Stuart Waldrip writes about the infamous CUSD “enemies” lists in his 13-page report to the CUSD Board of Education.